Taliban's 2024 flogging pledge: Did they follow through?

In 2024, the Taliban publicly committed to flogging and stoning as punishments for adultery and the operation of secret girls' schools — offenses that sit at the center of their moral and political order. Two years on, the question of whether those commitments have been carried out in practice remains one of the most consequential open questions in Afghan governance. For millions of women and girls, the distance between a stated policy and its enforcement is not an abstraction — it is the difference between danger and deeper danger. This investigation is, at its core, an inquiry into the natur